Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

Ágætis Byrjun - Excellent, Based on 1 Critics

AllMusic - 90Based on rating 9/10

90

Two years passed since Sigur Rós' debut. By this time, the band recruited in a new keyboardist by the name of Kjartan Sveinsson and it seems to have done nothing but take the band to an even higher state of self-awareness. Even on aesthetic matters, Sigur Rós entitle their sophomore effort not in a manner to play up the irony of high expectations (à la the Stone Roses' Second Coming), but in a modest realization.